Inkstand.



PATENTEDAUG. e, 1907.

E. T. DARKE.

.INKSTAND.

APPLICATION IILED MAY 24. 1907.

EDWARD THOMAS DARKE, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

INKSTAND Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 6, 1907.

Application filed May 24, 1907. Serial No. 375,469.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD THOMAS DARKE, secretary, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at 46 Drakefield road, Upper Tooting, Balham, London, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in Inkstands, of which the following is a specification.

' This invention relates to the well known type of inkstand in which the dipping cup is connected to a flexible ink container, the cup and container being carried by a cap which screws into a base and presses the container more or less against an abutment thus causing the ink to rise in the cup. In such inkstands as heretofore constructed the flexible container has been liable to adhere to the abutment so that when the c011- tainer is raised it lifts the abutment with it if the latter is loose or tears the container if the abutment is fixed to the base.

According to this invention the abutment ismade in one piece with or is otherwise fixed in the base and the container has fixed to it a guard which prevents it from coming into contact with the abutment.

The drawing is a vertical section of an inkstand constructed according to this invention.

a is the cap carrying the flexible container 1) and dipping cup 0.

(Z is the base into which the cap a screws.

d is the abutment made in one piece with the base.

e is a guard preferably of metal which is fixed to the underside of the container b and prevents it from coming into contact with the abutment d" Preferably the abutment and the guard are of hemispherical form as shown.

What I claim is1- 1. The combination of a cap, a flexible'container and a dipping cup carried by the cap. a base into which the cap screws, an abutment in the base, and a guard carried by the container and interposed between it and the abutment.

2. The combination of a cap. a flexible container and a dipping cup carried by the cap, a base into which the cap screws, a hemispherical abutment fixed in the base and a hemispherical guard carried by the container and interposed between it and the abutment.

EDYVARD THOMAS DARKE.

Witnesses A. NUTTING, C. I. LIDDON. 

